By now it’s clear that anyone who follows my blog knows I am passionate about win-win thinking. Today’s blog is a history lesson in playing nice. Radiolab recently featured a fantastic podcast titled “One Good Deed Deserves Another” that showcases Robert Axelrod’s famous findings about the prisoner’s dilemma. The podcast is a highly entertaining history lesson in […]
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Outsource Magazine, Apr 2011
Win-win thinking is not just something nice to say. It’s smart business and really is beautiful… In the article “All in the Game,” lead researcher Kate Vitasek explains why smart companies are challenging winner-takes-all approaches and are going all in to win-win approaches.
Going Beyond the Handshake
I’m sure you have heard of the handshake deal. Some are amazingly successful and long-lasting, but it’s rare that the initial handshake is not followed up with a contract that formalizes the initial meeting of the minds. In a way the handshake is (or should be) a very Vested act, because it implies – if […]
Logistics Management, Feb 2011
Members of the University of Tennessee’s Center for Executive Education share their five steps and a series of tips to improve your outsourcing relationship right from the start, in their article “5 Steps to Improving Your 3PL Relationship.“
Achieving Agility through the Vested Model
Last time I talked about an overused buzzword in business and outsourcing, collaboration, and how Vested Outsourcing takes it from overuse to useful. So while that memory and momentum is still fresh, another oft-used term for this occasional series is “agility.” While most every company prides itself on its agility in reacting to the vagaries […]
What Does Supply Chain Collaboration Really Mean?
Adrian Gonzalez brings up an interesting point about the multifaceted use and misuse of the word collaboration in a recent Logistics Viewpoints blog entry. He says, and I totally agree, that collaboration is arguably one of the most overused words in supply chain management. (Other overused but often unrealized terms include flexibility, agility, visibility, innovation, […]
Happy Birthday Vested Outsourcing!
Today is very special for Vested Outsourcing: It was exactly one year ago on this date that Vested Outsourcing: Five Rules That Will Transform Outsourcing was published by Palgrave Macmillan. To say that this experience has been a wonderful, exciting and mind-expanding journey is a total understatement and I want to thank everyone who made […]
Outsourcing Buzz Blog, Feb 2011
Kathleen Goolsby, of the Outsourcing Buzz Blog, sits down with lead researcher Kate Vitasek to discuss “Why Outsourcing is Often Dysfunctional.”
Shared Value: The Path to Success
The concept of shared value is difficult to understand and implement in a society, economy and business climate where sharing is not necessarily a prime motivation or even much in evidence. In the Vested Outsourcing approach to doing business shared value is an important step on the way to true collaboration and getting to the […]
Vested Outsourcing a Big Part of Mega Tech Success in 2010
I certainly didn’t expect to do a follow-up post on Mega Tech of Oregon’s great Vested story quite so quickly, but sometimes these things just fall in your lap, or maybe the stars are really aligned this month. Anyway, you may recall a post I wrote earlier this month about how Vested Outsourcing is not […]
